Heres what we can expect tonight in these covid times. For the first time ever, plexiglass will separate mike pence and Kamala Harris on stage. The candidates will be separated by a bit more than 12 feet apart. Tonights moderator, susan page of usa today, is not prerelease topics. The Debate Commission says there will be nine segments about 10 minutes each. Lets bring in tom bevan, president and cofounder of real clear politics. Tom, good evening and welcome back to our coverage. A little more than a week later. Lets start with the Vice President. What is mike pences challenge tonight . Hes got a tall order. I think mike pence is going to have to be very, very sharp. Hes got to present a robust defense of the Trump Administrations record. He has to present a forwardlooking vision as to what the Trump Administrations will do if they were given another four years. He has to press Kamala Harris on the questions that the campaign has not answered. Does she and joe biden support packing the
As 3 more counties yellow san benito and napa were added to the States Community spread watch list in napa county Business Owners were told this week to prepare shut down tomorrow. Ursula sogomonian spoke with restaurant employees in downtown napa about the rollback l a. That restaurants are rushing to get their customers are last Indoor Dining experience before county cut off. One minute after midnight due to rising coronavirus cases spoke with an employee at joes restaurant who sounded tired and frustrated, saying its been a tough time during the pandemic for his coworkers and himself to make rent and pay mortgages. They were happy to come back to work back on may 22nd. He said that it gave them in economic boost. When asked about this weeks notice he believes that they werent given enough warning ahead of time about that midnight deadline to close. Given that theyre stocked with perishable food which may now have to be donated. We have people scheduled for ships we re stalker food a
Innocent in all of this. Amongst so many young people. And. Hopes for a major breakthrough at the court of arbitration for sports. Broadcasting live. International thomas with us. Now the Border Agency has said its deploying a Rapid Intervention team to reinforce greeces border with turkey where thousands of refugees have been gathering brussels has also promised to provide athens with a 700000000 euro package to help deal with the crisis the build up began after turkeys said on friday that it would no longer prevent Asylum Seekers from attempting to head to europe that decision followed a dramatic surge in violence in syrias province has reacted angrily. Greece is now turning away anyone attempting to enter illegally and has suspended asylum applications a decision the Un Refugee Agency says lacks any legal basis or has the latest European Commission president to delay in the border towns between greece and turkey she took a military helicopter and was assessing the situation from abo
A group of. People with a separate. Readings and sell you take. This week millions of us democrats and even some independents from california to texas and beyond are hitting the ballot boxes while donald trump and health care dominated much of the democratic primary talking points its Climate Change and the failing state of our environment that many believe was the most pressing pressing issue of our day namely because the very future of life on earth as we know it is whats at stake when it comes to Climate Change but with the majority of republicans and even President Donald Trump himself taking the earth is flat style approach writing off the Science Behind Climate Change is nothing more than a Conspiracy Theory and a hoax the responsibility for combating Climate Change falls squarely. Under the democrats shoulders and this my friends is where the Green New Deal comes in inspired by u. S. President Franklin Delano roosevelts sweeping social safety nets and massive infrastructure jobs
Becomes extremely difficult to contain. Such a virus especially one that transmitted respiratory really i think a lot of ordinary people are concerned about this and should be concerned i mean it is a very real and disease but its not and its not on the scale of some of the things that already exist i think the overreaction to this and if you want to see an overreaction just look at the stock markets 6 trillion dollars lost last year rights of selling of stock markets at the level of the Great Depression almost a century ago and the real impact of that is going to be far greater than anything this virus is going to do if your state stared home self or intervening. And i realize a lot of people are busy and some people cannot afford to stay home and theyre sick. I think so. The choices that some of these decisions that we have to make as a society come down to individual households were. On the verge of martial law being in the lead as a way of containing this is if 500000 people are go